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Date 1912-01-13

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ry izth, 191 ne POOSOOS a baniedit of tha poentre charge. 1000 goples dally. 299 ctreaiated In city Ccoples Tinralay. Advertioars in Dally got country oWoWAtiar open fo.ndvertinors, oun ener DAILY EDI TION A. PO AND OC. AP. -EBLEGRAPRIC SER ICB EWS VOL, 2, NO. 157 lt;i MEDICINE HAT, ALBERTA, a. SATURDAY. JANUARY 13, 1912 PRICE, FIVE CENT ) Store, South Railway. Fire broke out in Hick s Clothing and Toronto Street at 2.50 this afternoon and quic ily spread to othor adjoining bnild- FIRE THREATENS 10 STROY pes Hicks Clothing Store, Wright s Jewelry Store, Howson s Wine and Liquor Store, Palace Barber Shop AllAfire -- Firemen Have Hard Figh capes from Suffocation and-Injury- t and N nearly overcame several of the fire- men, who were obliged to flee for safety. Many willing hands helped to carry Hick a Store with contents, of clothing, gent s furnishing will prac tically be 2 tots loss. destroyed. ings on allway Street. The fire Is thought to have origin- ated from a stove In the Campbell Jewellry tallor shop over. Wright's Store, fore It spread to the) whole store. c E Wright's Jewellery Store will b Howson s Wine and Likuor Store 1s threatened, as is also other build- Imme ately the place burst Into flames and it was but few seconds be- Watts: eae wee faces Toronto minutes the roof of the store went in with a mighty crash. That some of the firemen and willing helpers were not injured is a wonder, but fortun- ately all reveived the warning ery of tho spectators and reached safety in time. Some gasoline thought to have been in Wright's store or in the tallor shop above caught fire shortly after the fire started and sexcral of the firemen had narrow escapes. They were iry- ing to get at the seat of the fire when miy. the flames burst out on The dense: smoke and the toa sero weather greatly. retarded the effor of the firemen all of who baie fg with might and main. * the water. freezing the alights fw giving 2 great deal of tro ble and ee ce to the firemen, Stock of the: UITS, for this district KNOWN ey 50,000, practical ance, iumerous Es- store will be practically a complete. loss. A small amount of goods was got Gut of Hick s but It ts more or sese damaged. At 8.80 tthing but the walls of Hick s store remained. The firemen seemed to be concentrating thelr ef- forts to corner the fire at Hicks, Five streams were playing on the building from all angles, At 8.45 the fire bud secured a good hold on Houston's, and had canght on- to the Palace barber shop, - It would seem from the rapidity with which the flames spread that otber ae ee also he reduced to e Is controlled. Sprague and. Williamson's grocery store next to the Palaces baxier: shop Weomed at 4 o'clock tm have stopped the onward rush ofthe flames, The estimated dimageds placed at ered, Wy cingics- OTH CAPS reduced to 90c. ed to 75e . ry new, all be- repeats, ORTERS olored Comfort- 2.75 for 2.15. Moose Jaw; Jan. 13 -Word was received in the city yesterday th: two persons had perished from ex- posure in. the south country, bring- ing the number reported up to six. It is extremely difficult to get news of the fatalities and.the presa has to depend mainly upon -it filtering through the uncertain avenue of the two. inti one was.a woman anid the other a man. On the 30th of De- cember a man named G. Isbester liy- six miles south of Meyronne, which is 22. miles south from Gravel Biirg, and- 10 miles rom Moose. Jaw, was. last seen in a storm which raged on that day, He was found next moru- NICKERS school wear 27 ar 90. to 1.26 4 4 a 2k SOME rt Values ever own. fancy flannel, Hing about 100 feet from the bouse-for fe cat ee gone are es 48 yeara of age sod unmarried and when found he had in his possession a cheque for 675 and 75 in cash -and in an inside pocket was found his will which he had carried with him; leaving his property to a sister, De- eeased was a native of Minneasota and had almost completed hig dutios om ead.- The circumstances of the other case are-most path the victim, Mrs. Wilson, who lived with her husband, a homesteader, about quarter of a mile east of Wood Mountain. It seems that her husband was absent from home and that the House took fire, She made her escape and in an attempt to rt a neighbor's house, lost her way; when found was frozen to death. (W. A, P. Dispateh) Boston, Jan. 13 The steamer Bel fast, en route from Boston to Bangor, Maino, of the Eastern Steamship Co. was Ina collision: with coal barge collar separate, unnels and clos- e various lines 15: ut any shirt im 1.75 and you k at the goods, D GLOVES Gloves worth ves, horse hide Worth 1.50 1.00. WRIST Gloves, worth educed to G5c. ur Lined Gloves Co a pair. FATAL ACCIDENTS CW. A. P. Dispaten) in Boston harbor early today. One sidn of the: barge. crew was drowned. (W. ALP, Dispatch: Tacoma, Jan. 13 One man was ed and two seriously burt on steamer, Strathalbyn which collided early today in Puget Sound with the. American Hawien liner . Virginia, - fo pUnK oi 's cabin was torn away, leav ing g hole twenty: feet long in the how. Hold No. 1 filled with water and the Strathalbyn with a list of 75 passen- gers turned into Tacoma. The Vir- ginian with seyeral holes in her bow and ee. the water line, also was dirs here. Fk 2 Dispatchy- Spokane, Wash., Jan. 15 Ciad on- ly In thin, sult of underclothes and pe Pate Ona soeeee typeencer: Liotetany walked four miles through waist deep snow today to Waler, Idho, to sum- mon Help for his brother and com- Panion who with bith had been caught in a snow slide of Walker yester- day, The party found Ar- hur Linisten and John Pinson :bur- ted) under-the snow and both were dead. ts 0B -N. and three women: were drowued ear- ly tday when an aut mobile tn Which they were: riding ran gnto Ice eovering. an artificial stream of wat- er by the power plant outside this city. The men were Donald Reed, Son of former Supreme Court Justice A.M, Reed, and Chester A. Vanclef, An automobile salesman. The names ft the. women mee not mentioned. 7 4 JANUARY p, any piece of y want fulo a 0 We put in mmings and an guarantess tho Rome, Jan, 12 A severe naval av fon o eurred today in. the Red Se when seven Tyflish gunboats and xn armed yacht Were destroyed by Ital- jan warships, the division of Italian erulsera, which lias been scouring the coast. of: the: Red Sea in search of Turkish war, vessels and. ships con- veying somttaband sods poigined tor :LT BOOTS heavy felt soles. for 1.60. es with Leather + 2.25 tor 1.50. of Afabia, encountered the flotilla of Turkish guuboats. and at. once open- ed, fire. Th Turks replied, but thelr eeblo: armament succumbed to the f Seven Turkish Gun Boats Destroyed superior weapons of the Italian war sels, Italian warships which have the beginning of the war include the erulsers, Piemontek, Calabria and Pug- ia and a flotilla of destroyers. Mas- soWa is the base from which they op- erate. Several weeks ago they bom- barded the towns of Sheik, Safd Moo- 8a and Akabah. The action occurred d or Kun- fida, a small walled town with a gar- rison and two forts about 500 miles north of Aden on the east coast of the 'Red-Bea, 4uig stout midnight. Board Car Died in Hos- pital. OW. ALP, Dispatch Ji Winnipeg, Jan. 13. Albert Peterson, jeged 40, an employee of the Mill. was knocked down, supposedly vt by an electric car as be was in the det of boarding it, and was fatally injured, dying in the general hospital He leaves q widow and one child in Elmyood, Winnipeg's seventh. ward. HONOR MEMORY OF FAMOUS RABBI (Special te the News) . Chicago, IM, Jan. 13 Under the auspices of the Rabbinical Association of Chicago interesting exercises: were held today to, fhark the one hiindredth anniversary of the birth of Dr. Lieb- VIKING BUSINESS - BLOCK BURNED FIREMEN. HA) HARD FIGHT WITH TH TER STAND- ING AT 30 BELOW. OW. A. B Dispaten.) Riking, -Alta., Jan, 12. Vire start ed yesterday morning in the Victoria restaurant and quickly destroyed one of the business of the town. With the thermometar: registering 30 below zero and a gule blowing, the fire brigda experienced much difficul- ty in checking the blaze. The buildings burned were Williker Bros. general store; post-office and hall, W. F. Pravis, the Viking Geasttd and Printing plant, and C. Young res: taurant. The total loss is estimated at, 15,000) particularly insurance. si save a damaged Soadition. IRVINE ODD.PELLOWS INSTALLED On Thursda evening last District Deputy Grand J. H. Belly nc- companied hy Regt. Collier, acting as District Deputy Grand Marshall, Journed down to Irvine and installed the newly elected officers of that lodge for tre ensuing term as follows: JP, G. Peter Anderson. fa N. G Jas. Crawford, G. Carl Beny. Seeretary Dr, B. 8. Bolton, Warden W, .J. Corbett. Conduetor2Dr. Bolton. Ry 8. NCG H.8, Newby. T,S, N. . F, J. Crewe. R.8..V. Ge Jas. McLeish L.3. Vv. g w. Fulton. RS. 558. A. Cooley, bad. been gone through a very: eb able lun it wes provided by ine RAMLWAY FACES .. in Toronto on Xmas when Two were Killed and Many Hurt Brings up Cas Cases, OW. A. P. Dispaten.) eto: Ont:, San. 18. TWwo. more have teen commenced against the Toronto Railway Company as a result of the strapt car wreck om Chris tmas, evening when two people wera killed and several injur d. Robert Hall, who: is still-in the general thos- pital has issued a writ claiming un stated damages for the death of his aaa real: of the mjurkes she received in the same wreck and makes another claim for the injuries to him- self, Negligence on the part of - the company thtongh its servants is al- loged in both writs. iny A en ci fo1 MOTHER AND BABE HAVE A NARROW ESCAPE Government Will Allow that it t Waterways legislation of the Province of Alberta will be disallowed by the MOTHER: AND DAUGHTER ning of Jat 39 and daughter, 14 years old, were fro- Zen to death neighbor's house to their own home, ney family lives about ten miles south of Biggar. Germany s Future Emperor Horst. and Stops It, Berlin, Jan. 12: While aaa erince Sager ae Annual Medicine Hut Poultry and Pet Stock: evening, Jan. 16th in the News offic , fat eight bers are urged to be present and any good poultry. 2ith, 25th and 26th These will ac. cofnmodate 900 birds. bridge is kindly allowing the use of over 300. In ordpr to. make provision bers owning coops are requested to send them to tha city Hall. tioned im yesterda; A. and G.W. Disallowance That Government will Not Interfere in the Alberta Provincial Parliament Matter is the Feeling at Otta wa Minister of Justice Considering Evidence. Ottawa, Jan, 18 St ly Solbiateed jot Ukely the Alberta Great Ing evidence which has been present- Premier fg also semis any Interter- . ed, He has not yet come to any de- ence with the Provincial Government. cision, but It is generally elleved the E. A. Michener, Opposition leader In feeling among the cabinet ministers) the Alberta Legislature was in Ottawa whe lard. the presentation of the to-day but would express:no opinion ease Is against disallowance. The on the subject. : Drove Wife and mt of Ji Hon. C. J. has beeu carefully consider- NE TE . j ; Dea Angry Husband Turned Them Out in Cold and were Investigating. HOM : (CW. AP. Dispateh) Biggar, Sask., Jan. 13 On the eve- 9th, Mrs. James Sydney while going from 4 istance of about one mile: The Syd- (W. A. P. Dispatch.) Biggar, Sask., Jan. 13. The coron- the bouse amd that she took with ber f and mounted police have gone to nine year old son. the district south west of Biggar to Sidney, thinking that his wife would inyestigete the death of Mrs. James) 0 t meighhbr s honse, did not Sidney and ber mine year o'd son who Bake asty search till) the) following it is stated here, were driven from Mmorning. The thermometer registered - home by the woman's busband and in Biggar om the evening of the ai- Tae Se et wth ates Seige ei ing to make their to maightor's Tosister low. country. anna mower tis tery is Sidney and hie Loy. were not dressed, fat Sidney was in town on) Jan: Oth for anh Extieze cold wither, ant on, and rturned homie about 8 o'clock in the followin tig indu: Wee made they vere fonad. bow ons ice of liquor. A quarrel is reported Ialf-mile from their home frozen to to have taken place between his wit fand himself on account of his mot The Skiney family was composed of F Waying some groceries. Sidney is te tencafd came. toi this strict from the and shared BOFted to have driven isis wile coma TTntted, States. ebont'a yar Ago 3 fie : - PRINCE. A HERD Goes After Ruaaway (WA. P. Cable) aray horse crossing: the Sesame frightened i get boteR yk the ronaway, whicl the Bridle and aly oe Stop restored him to ay OULTRY u -of Local Association to be Held on Tuesday Evening Next. Deputation Waited on Minister of Anterior Asking for Consideration of Hudson Bay Pacific Railway Co. The annual nipeting. meeting of the CW. A.B. Dispatch.) Ottawa, Jan. 13. A: deputation rep- road from Prince Albert to Churchill, resenting an English syndicate waited but no work was done, The charter upon the minfster of the interior this it 1s understood has fallen into the afternoon and asked for consideration hands of English capitalists who, it of the charter of the Hudson Bay Pa- is reported, are asking for-the-guar- cific. Railway Compan: reas aes amtee of their bonds for the carrying (ranted in 1908 for the but fe Out-of-the- project A tively Tift in the Commons In idition to the donatiois ex Gol Sam Hughes-and A. x. meet Forget sociation will be held on Tuesday o'clock, -when. officers for the nsning year will be elected; All mem- tigen interested in the raising of ill be weleome: The Association iba been-ahle tn The government lending 160 of the coops and Leth F the geese and turkeys, all mem4 man Adler, who-was-rabbt-of the-con Eaton of Bohati Assn ) Waa (W.A-P. Dispatel.) Pot hur, Ont., Jan. 13. The rea- idence of James McDonald and R. wes the autlior of many ti on Jewish historical subjects and was. considered one: of the best informed theologians in America. . foe the MeDonald home, where The entry list closes 19th. 157att ; Jan, 13 Two men London, Jan. termation al + since the time of Napoleon. gantic andienca thab filled the build- ing to its utmost capacity he stated) into deadly conflict with armies of numberless millions. The effect of floss is 13,000. The neighbors, see- on JanUATY the floor with her little child near er. H. 13.Lord. Rosebery of. the foreign policy-as initiated by made a nothet of his p riodical exits Sir Edwand Grey, tut-gome from retirement yesterday and staril- mose radical papers unbesitttingly de- el the whole of the country ty a mounce the foreign minister for hs speech delivered at Glasgow umiversi- bigh-handed conduct of foreign af- ty in which be warned the natio to fairs. Sir R ward bas: for a consid- adhera strictly to the policy of the erable time met fonsign office and thus prevent am in- tion from the radicals of his party as disaster unparalleled well as from the labor members To gi- account of the secrecy has carries on negotiations of an in- ternational character, and he has sev- that the nation had entered into lia- eral times barn called severely for the been cruising In the Red Sea since Wilities which might bring the nation secrecy with which he condacts aflairs of his office, Lord Rossbery s-speech-on-the-netion rzet speech fas 16st the has been sothing short of electric amd the party of which he was ofice prime, the daily papers are. devoting many minister, now sits on the cndes trenchied colwmng this morning to editorials of in the supper house varied opinions are being expressed a5 Lond Roseberry startles the world by to the text of his speech) The-union- nrakiog- a pronouncement respecting ist pees are almost solidly in favor Imperial smatterd,-tut-thieateasion fs Mercer on Prospect Aventle were de- stroyed by fire this afternoon: The ing smoke pouring from the windows cai irs, McDonald in faint on Lord Rosebery Startles Cou ntry with Warning to ) Natign to Sapart Foreign Policy. -and thus Avert a eau as Terrible as the Sap Wars. - OW. A P. Cable) of the 1 * of with great opposi- on ith which he the Lord Rosebery, who since His bud- spats of us wh tly ciation desires to acknowledge with F thanks, the receipt of 3.00 from Mr. The entry Toth. Good cottage near flour mil cotsidered to be the most momentous that lias ever conte under his scathing criticism. London Press says: country's foreign policy good or evil has xow embraced Emg- land in the. continent might at any' time tring the country into q contest with the. armies numberless millions. We have entered into Habilities, said Lond Rosebery, cause not written, which might sometimes have ravagal Europe and Lotd Rosebery said he did not de- sire to make. the flesh creep position was one of and for which it was iipossitte toy, Sseisy ie aeeoe mentary Laws in Heated of Public Servants. Ottawa, Jan, 18 Not very. much eurred the liveliest headway with business was made in the commons yesterday. After a fe unimportant preliminaries the house was moved into committee of supply on the estimates of the customs de- partment, the Yirst item which was for salaries, ete,, and which provi jadministration of the service, which eral government, such Prize Lists for the Poultry Show in be obtained at The News office, list closes. on. January , Pettet Co. proved to be.a shag. The Opposition the independen e of the P did not object to the increase which Act. This caused a very lively. t it was generally agreed was necessary It's not true; take It owing t6 the growing-service and the Mr. Loggie, and his oll necessity for salary Increases, but they made a basis upon which to re new thelr objections to the-dismissal of public servants. The claim: was. made by them that many off ers had 10st thelr positions without hearing, after whichj. charges were laid against them. Instances were quoted and'in each case the member representing the constituency in which the dismirsal occurred assured the house th the official who had bedn decapitated. was a partisan, Towarfs eleven o'clock there oo Zero Spell Winnipeg, Jan, Mr, AK, MeL an gob up to state ote ata ea ee Col. Hughes Each spoke a couple of i umes with the-result that both thought they had. the floor. Both men got heated: and addressed each other by name. Mr, Loggie and Dr. Edwards Were-also on thelr feet. Finally Mr, Logsie explained that his name appeared on the auditor's report by mistake, Tt was a case of clerical error, is Broken forty below without a break until to- day. Insfact nly-on one day Hes te temperature risen above twenty be- low, for the most part it having been an abreyiated dispatch from y the Western Associated Lord Rosebery warned the nation the/necessity of backing up the which for system and of Fine and grad- ually. moderate, Saturday higher: tem- erature. These are the. glad-thd- ings of Probs today, promising. the. close of one of the longest and most in the thirties. Dealers estimate that un formly.severe.cold speels in the the domestic resumption of coal-hes- piistory of the Red-River- attey om risem trom fifty to a hundred per cent Christias eve it turned cold aft r afx and with foe at over ten dollars tho Weeks of unusually mild weather, and Dill for Winnipeg alone hae been on the Wednesday of Christmas week. Severe conditions the -meroury dipped derinitely beldw have obtaliied over most of the Caa- roro to range between that point and adian pFidrie west. less binding be- lead imto one of the greater wars which ich woald be greater than any war tut the me danger

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